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    Quote Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony View Post
    When it comes to songs that sound like other songs, surely no one is more guilty than Oasis:

    "Supersonic": The opening of each verse sounds just like "I'd like to Teach the World to Sing" by The New Seekers.

    Surely you mean Shakermaker? The New Seekers took legal action and they had to rewrite the last verse. See here:

    http://altrincham.today/2018/08/20/n...de-altrincham/

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    Quote Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony View Post
    Don't know about anybody else, but in my early record buying years there were often these words from my mum which I dreaded: "While you're in the record shop can you pick me up..."
    I was asked (ie ordered) by one sister to buy for another sister 'Heard It Through the Grapevine', as she was too embarrassed to ask for it. Not because it was a bad song but because it was going down in the charts. Most of the songs mentioned are great songs, and thus not guilty pleasures, IMO. Well, apart from 'Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep' which should have been banned.

    Also in the '60s, one uncle, who seemed ancient to me at the time (he was probably about 40) asked if I could buy him 'San Franciso' for his birthday. 'You mean the Tony Bennett song?' I asked. He was very offended, as he'd meant the Scott McKenzie song.

    No guilty pleasures here music-wise, though I do own two LPs with Jimmy Saville's picture on the cover.

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    Middle of the Road were crap and catchy at the same time and could really mess up your cred with the girls if you weren't vigilant.

    They got me once: My first singles I bought, which would be the early part of 1972 were Telegram Sam, California Man, Tumbling Dice, and SACRAMENTO. Fortunately my first girlfriend wasn't for another six months, by which time I had some more T. Rex, Mott, Alice Cooper and Roxy Music. A good year.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Crackles View Post
    Surely you mean Shakermaker? The New Seekers took legal action and they had to rewrite the last verse. See here:

    http://altrincham.today/2018/08/20/n...de-altrincham/

    Incidentally Sifters Records is still there.



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    John, you're absolutely right, that's what I meant. What's the matter with me, this kind of thing keeps happening!

    Didn't know about the New Seekers thing, I've just read about it. Similarly, my theory about "Whatever" and "The Idiot Song" turns out to be a thing: The writer Neil Innes successfully sued Oasis and got royalties and co-writing credits. The article went on to say that as Innes' song parodied Lennon and The Beatles, as did much of his output, he had to share the royalties with Lennon and McCartney.

    It seems there's nothing new in this world, and never has been. The copied turn out to be copiers themselves.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony View Post
    Middle of the Road were crap and catchy at the same time and could really mess up your cred with the girls if you weren't vigilant.
    Chicory Tip, they were another bunch of crap. Did anyone ever work out what words they sang after 'Son of my father ...'? It sounded like 'bowling I was rolling I was big band guy'. Like in 'Blinded by the Light', where the words go all weird; 'bound up like a douche another oner in the night'. Or words to that effect.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Joe View Post
    Chicory Tip, they were another bunch of crap. Did anyone ever work out what words they sang after 'Son of my father ...'? It sounded like 'bowling I was rolling I was big band guy'. Like in 'Blinded by the Light', where the words go all weird; 'bound up like a douche another oner in the night'. Or words to that effect.

    I've got Son of my Father, I shall have to dig it out. I also bought the next single, What's Your Name? I didn't realise that Son of my Father was written by Giorgio Moroder till I recently watched a programme about glamrock that I recorded ages ago, you don't look at the writing credits when your are a young teenager do you?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Joe View Post
    Chicory Tip, they were another bunch of crap. Did anyone ever work out what words they sang after 'Son of my father ...'? It sounded like 'bowling I was rolling I was big band guy'. Like in 'Blinded by the Light', where the words go all weird; 'bound up like a douche another oner in the night'. Or words to that effect.
    it was;

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    Molded, I was folded, I was preform-packed
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